User Group 10, IBM South Bank

• GPFS Performance Tuning – Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research
• Numascale – Robin Harker, Numascale

User Group 13, IBM South Bank, London, UK

• Zip containing all talks
• Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson & Claire O’Toole
• Keynote talk – Doris Conti (no slides)
• 4.2 Roadmap & 2016 Priorities, Ulf Troppens
• Deep Dive – 4.2 GUI & Live Demo, Markus Rohwedder (no slides)
• Sponsor Talk 1 – Seagate: Using Spectrum Scale in the IoT World, Ray Coetzee
• Sponsor Talk 2 – ArcaStream: Python API & Demo, Jez Tucker
• User Talk 2 – Milk flows freely from London to Cardiff with AFM, Dave Goodbourn, Milk Visual Effects
• Sponsor Talk 3 – NetApp: HPC – How NetApp plays in this world, Molinder Toor
• User Talk 1 – NCAR’s Globally Accessible Data Environment, Pamela Gillman, NCAR
• Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration, Piyush Chaudhry
• Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: Accelerating storage functions in a co-design network, Darren Harkins
• Technical Deep Dive – Tiering to the Cloud / MC Store, Robert Basham
• Technical Deep Dive – Problem Determination Enhancements, Mathias Dietz
  Licensing, David Cremise
• Sponsor Talk 5 – OCF: Scale out NAS for the masses, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
• Spectrum Scale ILM & Spectrum Archive, Nils Haustein (introductory)
• Metadata sizing / tuning, Indulis Bernsteins, Madhav Ponamgi (advanced)
• AFM Introduction and use cases, Madhav Ponamgi (introductory)
• Spectrum Protect Integration & Best Practices, Nils Haustein (Backup and HSM) (advanced)
• Encryption / Compression, Olaf Weiser, Yoann Lechevallier (introductory)
• Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale, Nils Haustein (advanced)
• A few words from IBM (room survey)
• Sponsor Talk 6 – DDN: Adventures in AFM, Vic Cornell
• Deep Dive – OpenStack Integration, Gauging Tapase
• Sponsor Talk 7 – IBM: Life Sciences, Frank Lee
• Sponsor Talk 8 – Lenovo, Michael Hennecke
•  look into the future by IBM Research, Sven Oehme

The UK user group for 2018 is taking place on 18th & 19th April 2018 at IBM Client Centre, London.

The agenda for the day is listed below. Presentations are linked, where available from the talk title. Videos of the talks are available at in a YouTube playlist.

Wednesday 18th April 2018

09:00	10:00	ARRIVALS & REGISTRATION
10:00	10:30	Opening & welcome	Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole / Ted Hoover
10:30	11:15	Update Scale (video) / ESS / Support (video)	Mathias Dietz & Chris Maestas
11:15	11:40	MultiCloud Transparent Cloud Tiering (video)	Rob Basham
11:40	12:00	Sponsor Talk E8 Shared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters (video)	Stuart Campbell
12:00	13:00	LUNCH
13:00	13:20	User Talk – EBI and IBM update – MMAP issues (video – both talks)	Jordi Valls / Sven Oehme
13:20	13:40	Sponsor Talk NEC GxFS Storage Appliance at Karlsruher Institute of Technology (video)	Jan Erik Sundermann
13:40	14:00	Tooling Scale – Automation	Open Discussion
14:00	14:20	User Talk – Rohde&Schwarz R&S VSA (Virtual storage access) Reliable fault tolerant storage in Broadcast (video)	Oliver Gappa
14:20	14:40	Sponsor Talk – OCF Novel TCT: A brief demo on using TCT with alternative cloud gateways	Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
14:40	15:10	BREAK
15:10	15:30	Sponsor Talk – Ellexus Ten commandments of good I/O	Dr. Rosemary Francis
15:30	15:50	User Talk – Scientific Computing & Storage at The Francis Crick Institute	Michael Holliday
15:50	16:35	Mixing storage systems in Spectrum Scale – Migrations & pools stories	Luis Bolinches
16:35	17:20	Burning Issues Discussion	Carl Zetie
17:20	17:30	WRAP UP	Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole

In the evening there is a networking/social event (food + drinks) at a local restaurant. Further details will be provided on the day.

Thursday 19th April 2018

08:30	09:00	ARRIVALS
09:00	10:00	AWS Installation Live Demo & Container Update	John Lewars
		Composable Infrastructure for Genomics Medicine Workloads	Ulf Troppens
		GUI capabilities in multi-cluster setups like AFM and cross-cluster mount	Markus Rohwedder
10:00	11:00	File System Audit Logging / Running Spectrum Scale in a Vagrant environment	Chris Maestas
		REST API – Update & Deep Dive in Health Monitoring and Zimon Queries	Andreas Koeninger
		AFM Deep Dive – Tuning and debugging	Venkateswara Puvvada
11:00	12:00	Scale on Z / Mainframe	Susanne Wintenberger
		Network Flows	John Lewars
		System Health, Performance Monitoring & Call Home	Mathias Dietz
12:00	13:00	LUNCH
13:00	13:20	User Talk – QMUL	Peter Childs
13:20	13:40	Sponsor Talk – Lenovo	Michael Hennecke
13:40	14:20	The advent of NVMe. What does this mean for Scale?	Sven Oehme
14:20	14:50	BREAK
14:50	15:10	User Talk – MAX IV	Andreas Mattsson
15:10	15:30	Sponsor Talk – DDN	Vic Cornell
15:30	16:30	Cognititive, ML, Hortonworks	Yong ZY Zheng
16:30	16:40	CLOSE	Simon Thompson / Claire O’Toole

With thanks to our sponsors for their support.